Nurses work in complex situations with daily challenges, where the needs of each patient represent unique demands. Action research helps nurses to investigate their practices as reflective practitioners, allowing them to ask 'What is going on? How do we understand the existing situation? How do we improve it?'

This book supports nurses in investigating their own professional practices in order to develop the new insights and approaches:

- embodying holistic perspectives in dialogical and relational forms of individual and organisational learning,

- equal emphasis on processes...